The richest man in America stepped to the podium and declared war on the nation’s school systems. High schools had become “obsolete” and were “limiting—even ruining—the lives of millions of Americans every year.” The situation had become “almost shameful.” Bill Gates, prep-school grad and college dropout, had come before the National Governors Association seeking converts to his plan to do something about it—a plan he would back with $2 billion of his own cash. -- Newsweek
News and analysis of corporate school reform and the privatization of public education
Get sick, get well
Hang around a ink well
Ring bell, hard to tell
If anything is goin' to sell
-- Bob Dylan
Monday, May 2, 2011
Back to School for the Billionaires
“Our role is to take risks that government is not willing to do ... People question my motivation,” -- Eli Broad
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